Egg Harbor Township

Egg Harbor Township is a township in Atlantic County, New Jersey. It was initially inhabited by the Lenape, who made use of the abundant fish, shellfish, wild berries, and bird eggs in the area, and used shells to make wampum. Egg Harbor was so-named because of the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen May's discovery of several gull eggs in the area in 1614. On 13 May 1761, the area was incorporated as "Great Egg Harbor Township", and it was renamed to "Egg Harbor Township" in 1798. In 2016, it had a population of 43,504 people.